Sui Jianguo

© Photo credit：Tony Metaxas

© Photo credit：Tony Metaxas

To create this artwork, Sui Jianguo found a beautiful stone on the building site of World Expo, and magnified it, using the wire netting structure to create a massive hill. The landscape in Chinese art represents a chapter in itself. By revisiting this issue in his own way and by renewing both the material condition and questioning the surface treatment of the work, the artist is facing a futuristic perspective of a new type. The use of metal honeycomb technology refers to the reality of the landscape as something completely generic like a logo or an icon of post-modern times.

Sui Jianguo

Born in 1956 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.
Lives and works in Beijing, China.

Full professor and head of the Department of Sculpture of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Sui Jianguo is one of the leading contemporary Chinese artists in China today. His techniques of sealing, binding, tying and hammering heavy materials such as granite and metals created a relationship of association and confrontation between his materials, which resonate with his perception of life and his internal conflicts. Sui Jianguo has had numerous solo shows in China, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, and most recently in the United States, in addition to many high-profile joint exhibitions worldwide.

Recent solo shows:
2009: Motion/Tension : New Work by Sui Jianguo,Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. 2008: Art, Time Square – Exhibition of works by Sui Jianguo, Hong Kong, China; Revealing Traces, Joyart, Beijing. 2007: Dian Xue - Sui Jianguo Art Works, OCAT, Shanghai, China; Speeding up – Sui Jianguo Space Video, Arario, Beijing. 2005: Sui Jianguo: The Sleep of Reason, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California (USA).